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The Nymphs and White Night
I meant to do this post earlier, and I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet. Saturday 22 February 2014 was epic. Not only was it White Night Festival in Melbourne but it was The Nymphs first album launch. White Night is a festival held over 12 hours, 7pm to 7am, in the…
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Watching Movies: The Matthew McConaughey got skinny story
So, everyone is talking about how thin Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto got for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’. Having won a double pass to see the film I took myself and a friend to the Palace Westgarth yesterday to see for myself whether there was more to this film than that everyone was really thin. We…
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Watching Movies: Flickerfest
I don’t know about you, but I enter competitions for things under the assumption that I’ll never win. That assumption has been severely challenged the last week as I’ve won movie passes twice! One is for Dallas Buyers Club (so I’ll be reviewing that in the next week or so, yay!) and the other was…
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St Kilda Festival 2014
Yesterday afternoon I braved the harsh summer sun to wander around St Kilda and soak up some of the festival good times. The St Kilda Festival is a free annual event which runs for a bit over a week and culminates in Festival Sunday (yesterday). There is free live music, and rides, and stuff, and…
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Just a sort of update post
Dear Readers, I know that lately you have only been hearing from me doing movie review. I’m really enjoying posting journalistic(ish) entries but I thought maybe it was time for a bit of an update on where I’m at with some other stuff I’m doing. Firstly, I’m almost finished my second edit of my NaNoWriMo…
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Watching Movies: The Great Con
Last night I saw American Hustle at the Jam Factory in South Yarra, Melbourne. The film is based, admittedly fairly loosely, on events surrounding an FBI operation called AbScam in the late seventies. The basic premise is that the FBI use two con artists in an attempt to bring down some of the less savoury types…
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Watching Movies: Happy Families
Today’s movie review will be of ‘August: Osage County’, an intense drama about the difficulties of living in the Weston family. Written by Tracy Letts, based on his Pulizter and Tony Award winning play of the same name, this story follows the relationships in the highly dysfunctional family as they try to deal with the…
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Watching Movies: Prisoners
Last night I saw Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Prisoners’ at the Moonlight Cinema in the Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens. The weather was pleasant, if a little bit cool, I went with a sizable troupe of people, we all met early in the evening to share a picnic dinner and settle into a good spot. The story follows…
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Watching Movies: Harry Potter is gay?!
One of the great things about Mondays is that it’s cheap movie day at the Cinema Nova in Carlton, Melbourne. To celebrate this fact I took myself to see ‘Kill Your Darlings’ yesterday. This film, directed by John Krokidas, is the story of the murder of David Kammera by Lucien Carr in New York in…
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Watching Movies: Where’s Walter?
I’ve done a few of these ‘Watching Movies’ posts. Initially I had thought that I might be writing mostly reviews of movies I’d taken myself to, but I seem to have more friends that I have given myself credit for or something and have been to a few lately with people. Anyway, I will still…
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